A challenging multiplayer game. The goal is to find your way to the flag. Someone known as “the master” (randomly selected) can either help or hinder you by drawing or erasing paths. It’s complicated. Eats up lots of free time.

A site that randomly generates a “why I’m leaving [city name here]” letter based on US census and other data. Kind of cute. Very much US-specific.

Some reads:

Abandoning the work I hated. An essay by Robert Markowitz in the New york Times (so caution: paywall.) He goes from being a lawyer, to teaching Sunday school, to… deciding to take his time to find what he loves to do instead. Inspiring.

“There’s been a lot of change over the last 20 years, what will it look like in another 20?”

You get to interview an oddly-created “future version” of yourself to find out what will have changed in 20 years. (Note: You have to grant the site access to your computer’s webcam and microphone.) This is making the rounds and appears to have taken some real effort to achieve.

A fairly challenging parking game where the steering wheel is super extreme. (You turn way sharper than you probably want to.) Takes some getting used to but it’s satisfying when you complete each level.

“The 2,480-year-old marital document, written in demotic script […] was made to ensure that if the union between the signers didn’t work out, the wife would be adequately provided for. Her compensation would include ‘1.2 pieces of silver and 36 bags of grain every year for the rest of her life…'”

You can make your own take on “Straight Outta Compton” with this simple tool, which is a promotional widget for the new Straight Outta Compton movie. Well done. (It’s making the rounds in sometimes humorous ways.)

“codedoodl.es is a showcase of curated creative coding sketches. The aim of these doodles is to exhibit interactive, engaging web experiments which only require a short attention span. No loading bars, no GUI, no 5MB 3D models or audio files, just plain and simple doodles with code.”

These are great! And this site could eat up hours out of your day. (I wouldn’t complain about it.)

An article making the rounds this week that I think could be worth a look at is from Marc Hogan over at Stereogum:

Stewart Anderson has had enough. The frontman for noise-pop veterans Boyracer and head of likeminded label 555 Recordings has been releasing music on vinyl since 1991. But the well-documented manufacturing delays that have gone hand in hand with the format’s unlikely resurgence have finally pushed the artist/entrepreneur to the point of wanting to break it off with analog discs.

Full disclosure: I still have a thing for vinyl records. But I can’t justify the $35 (and higher) price tags.